How to Clean Up Your Smartphone in 4 Easy Steps
by Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp — all-in-one help authoring tool
With time, your phone desktop may become cluttered. And like every physical storage, your phone’s storage needs cleaning. And your phone desktop — decluttering.
Get rid of all the apps you don’t need
For starters, you have to delete the apps you are not using. Maybe there’s an app you downloaded, launched once, and never got back to it. Or maybe there’s an app that you use so seldom you’d be better off without it. To see if you spent any time in any app, consult Screen Time on iOS or Digital Wellbeing on Android.
Optimize the number of apps
There are probably apps that do almost the same. How many maps or food delivery apps do you have? Do you think you can safely delete some of those? Or maybe look for something else entirely. There are multifunctional apps that allow you, for example, to order food from different sources. Such apps can replace several more-focused ones.
Cleaning cache and trash
Some apps leave trash behind when they get deleted, and all of them have a cache. A cache is various data that an app needs at some point. But it may not need it always. Or there may be some part of the cache that app generated at some point (for example, images from your facebook feed), but does not need anymore. But those files remain. Some apps can manage cache and replace old data with new, taking up only a specified amount of space. But some apps are hungry and will take up all of the available space. Not to allow that, clean cache sometimes.
Besides the cache, some apps leave trash behind them in the form of empty folders or unnecessary files. Sometimes you make duplicate photos. Sometimes you take a lot of photos. All of this takes up your prone’s space. There are various apps out there that will clean “leftovers” from deleted apps, find duplicate photos, and allow you to upload photos into the cloud storage.
Cleaning up the desktop
Having dozens of icons in no particular order on the screen can impede your productivity. For starters, put your apps in a specific order — put the ones you use a lot first. Or put the most used app on a separate screen (both iOS and Android allow you to create several screens). Then you can go further and group apps into folders by their purpose. But choose meaningful names for the folders, like “traveling,” “cooking,” or “banking,” otherwise, it’s pointless.
You may not notice this immediately, but if you keep your phone clean and organized, it can have a positive effect on your life and productivity.
Have a nice day!
Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — best online documentation tool for SaaS vendors
